Citation analysis
Find your next content insight in the pages AI cites.
Knowing your brand was mentioned does not tell you what to improve. See which pages an answer cites and which customer questions keep bringing them up.
Understand the evidence
Read the source in the context of the answer.
A brand appearing in an answer and a link to its website are different events. Follow the citation and read the source to understand the question it helps answer.
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- Brand mention
- Mentioned
- Position
- Item #1
- Own URL cited
- Yes
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From a domain to a page. From a page to a question.
Explore citation sources by domain and URL, then inspect the connected questions and answers. Recurring sources and competitor citation gaps help narrow down which pages to review.
How to use citation analysis
Put it into practice
Turn an observation into an informed decision.
Find recurring sources
Look for domains and pages that appear across the same models and dates. Repeated citations across questions can be more useful than a single occurrence.
Read the connected questions
Open the question and AI answer where a source appeared. Distinguish buying comparisons from instructions or explanations.
Compare the source with your content
Review explanations, supporting evidence and freshness side by side. Improve the parts of your pages that leave customer questions unanswered.
What can you track?
- Domain and URL-level analysis
- Review citations detected in collected answers. Distinguish your own domain, competitor domains and other sources.
- Sources connected to answers
- Inspect related prompts and original answers as well as citation frequency. Not every AI answer includes source URLs.
How to interpret the results
Sources distinguish answer citations, search references and older records with an unconfirmed type (legacy). A search reference is not necessarily cited in the final answer. These records do not reveal the model’s full training data or hidden search process; read the original material to judge a source’s relationship to a claim or brand.
Read the measurement guideGo a little deeper.
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GEO fundamentalsHow to Measure AI Search Visibility: Mentions, Position, and Citations
Define the denominator behind brand mention rate, then inspect recommendation position, description accuracy, and cited URLs. Includes a calculation example and a weekly review method.
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